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EU to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe
The European Commission said Thursday that it plans to investigate allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is using a Soviet-era compound in eastern Europe as part of a secret prison system to hide and interrogate al Qaeda suspects (More) |
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CIA reportedly holding al Qaeda terror suspects in covert prison system
The Central Intelligence Agency has held and interrogated some of its most important al Qaeda suspects at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to current and former intelligence officials and di (More) |
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US military lawyer for Australian terror suspect calls for abuse probe
The US military lawyer representing Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [BBC profile; advocacy website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday requested an independent investigation into Hicks' allegations of abuse at the hands of prison (More) |
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Lawyer says Gitmo suicide attempt sign of desperation
American lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , who is currently representing six Bahraini men being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay , said Tuesday that prisoners at the US facility are becoming increasingly desperate. Colangelo-Bryan witnessed a s (More) |
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Rumsfeld defends prohibiting UN interviews with Guantanamo detainees
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday defended the US government's decision to prohibit UN human rights observers from interviewing detainees on any visit to the prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay . The UN observers said Monday t (More) |
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Lawyer witnessed Guantanamo suicide attempt
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan an American lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee Jumah Dossari , recently became the first outsider to witness an attempted suicide at the military prison. Human rights advocates say Dossari timed the attempt so that it would (More) |
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Australia to investigate Gitmo detainee abuse allegations
A day after lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks [BBC profile; advocacy website; JURIST news archive], said they have evidence that Hicks suffered sexual abuse and torture while in US custody, the Australian government has sai (More) |
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Why Americans Don't Care About GTMO, and Why They Should
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that Americans should start caring about the denial of legal process to prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) not just out of sentimentality or because it's t (More) |
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UN investigators decline Gitmo invitation unless detainees can be interviewed
Three UN human rights experts who were invited last Friday by the Pentagon to examine conditions at Guantanamo Bay prison said Monday that they will refuse the invitation unless they are allowed to interview detainees. The Pentagon said Friday t (More) |
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Bahrain requests US investigation into Gitmo torture allegations
At the urging of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Embassy in Washington has formally demanded that the US government promptly investigate charges of torture, abuse and other inhumane tactics being used against Bahraini prisoner Juma (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
